142nd Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment

Infobox Military Unit
unit_name= 142nd Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry


caption=Illinois state flag
dates= June 18, 1864 to October 27, 1864
country= United States
allegiance= Union
branch= Infantry
equipment=
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The 142nd Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry was an infantry regiment that served in the Union Army during the American Civil War. It was among scores of regiments that were raised in the summer of 1864 as Hundred Days Men, an effort to augment existing manpower for an all-out push to end the war within 100 days.

ervice

The 142nd Illinois Infantry was organized at Freeport, Illinois, and mustered into Federal service on June 18, 1864, for a one-hundred-day enlistment. The 142nd served in garrisons in the Memphis, Tennessee area.

The regiment was mustered out of service on October 27, 1864.

Total strength and casualties

The regiment suffered 30 enlisted men who died of disease, for a total of 30 fatalities. [http://www.civilwararchive.com/Unreghst/unilif10.htm#142nd The Civil War Archive website after Dyer, Frederick Henry. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion. 3 vols. New York: Thomas Yoseloff, 1959.]

Commanders

*Colonel Rollin V. Ankeny - mustered out with the regiment. [http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilcivilw/f&s/141-fs.htm Illinois in the Civil War website after Illinois Adjutant General's muster rolls ]

ee also

*List of Illinois Civil War Units
*Illinois in the American Civil War

Notes

References

* [http://www.civilwararchive.com/unionil.htm The Civil War Archive]